Tracks: Blue Car; I Don't Know; What a Little Love Can Do; Maybe I Missed the Point; Exception to the Rule; She Lay Her Whip Down; Lookin' Out My Back Door; Slow Boat; Van Gogh in Hollywood; To Live Is to Fl...
Artists:
Jeff Bridges/Jeff Bridges & the Abiders

This installment in Sony's Country anthology series delivers 12 classics from the pride of Bakersfield, California, Buck Owens, and if you're the sort who is trying to recall when Owens recorded for a...continue...

Part of Hickory Records' budget-priced Snapshot series, each of which features a custom digipak with ten tracks and four collectible and custom snapshot photos, Snapshot: Merle Haggard, for all of its...continue...

Tracks: I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink; Workin' Man Blues; Okie from Muskogee; My Own Kinda Hat; Bottle Let Me Down, The; Mama Tried; I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am; Sing Me Back Home; Misery and ...
Artists:
Merle Haggard

Universal's 2014 compilation Icon 2 has a title that's very similar to their 2012 collection Icon, and it also shares four songs with that disc ("I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink," "Misery and Gi...continue...

Part of Capitol/Universal Music's Classic Album series, this box set from country legend Merle Haggard features five complete studio albums, including Swinging Doors (1966), I'm a Lonesome Fugitive (1...continue...

Tracks: I've Got a Tiger by the Tail; Together Again; Before You Go; Second Fiddle; Don't Let Her Know; My Heart Skips a Beat; Act Naturally; Only You (Can Break My Heart); Love's Gonna Live Here; Under Your...
Artists:
The Buckaroos

Omnivore's 2013 compilation The Buckaroos Play Buck & Merle is a two-fer by any other name, combining the group's 1965 album The Buck Owens Song Book with 1971's The Songs of Merle Haggard. Both LPs p...continue...

The 2012 release Icon rounds up 11 songs Merle Haggard recorded for MCA in the late '70s and early '80s -- a period that sometimes gets overlooked between his seminal early stint at Capitol and his la...continue...

2008 six CD set spotlighting his recordings for Capitol Records spanning the years 1968-76. Country legend, Merle Haggard, sings of familiar country themes: jail, betrayal,...continue...
This is a sumptuously appointed six-CD collection of the iconic country artist Merle Haggard's later Capitol Records years. A follow-up to the German reissue label Bear Family's 1995 UNTAMED HAWK set,...continue...

Tracks: Dear John Letter, A; Wonderful Word; I Traded My Heart for His Gold; Take Me; Just a Love for Someone to Steal; No Tomorrow; Father; Please Don't Take Him from Me; That Little Boy of Mine; Wait a Lit...
Artists:
Bonnie Owens

If you've heard Dale Watson once or twice in nearly two decades of recording and touring, then you know how you feel about his work. His sound is devoted to hardcore, old-school, honky tonk country mu...continue...

Tracks: Wild Side of Life; Smoky the Bar; On Tap, In the Can, Or in the Bottle; Green Light; Yesterday's Girl; Older the Violin, The Sweeter the Music, The; Oklahoma Hills; Honky Tonk Girl; Six Pack to Go, A...
Artists:
Hank Thompson

The Best of the Best of Hank Thompson is a ten-track, budget-priced collection that presents several of Thompson's biggest hits, some of which appear to be re-recordings. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine...continue...

Tracks: Race Is On, The; Girl I Used to Know, A; Window Up Above, The; White Lightning; She Thinks I Still Care; Love Bug; You Comb Her Hair; Your Heart Turned Left (And I Was on the Right); Walk Through Thi...
Artists:
Don Rich

This 10-track best-of gathers some of Merle Haggard's most vivid narrative material, including his semi-autobiographical "Branded Man" and the old-fashioned ballad-style "Legend of Bonnie and Clyde." ...continue...

Red Simpson has to be the first country -- or otherwise -- singer to perform a definitive song about truck drivers from the point of a semi. This is an album by Simpson the singer, not Simpson the wri...continue...

Tracks: Always Wanting You; Today I Started Loving You Again; I'm Always on a Mountain When I Fall; Emptiest Arms in the World; Things Aren't Funny Anymore; I Threw Away the Rose; Misery and Gin; Holdin' Thi...
Artists:
Merle Haggard

This collection of Merle Haggard ballads contains finely observed ruminations on varying degrees of loss. Haggard's masterful songwriting swings from the gentle romance of "It's All in the Movies" to ...continue...

Tracks: Okie From Muskogee; I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am; Way I Am, The; Roots of My Raising; Sing Me Back Home; Silver Wings; My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers; Cherokee Maiden; Old Man From the Mount...
Artists:
Merle Haggard

Collecting selected 1960s and early-'70s hits re-recorded by the legendary country singer, this best-of includes a version of Merle Haggard's first top 10 hit, 1965's "My Friends Are Going to Be Stran...continue...

Tracks: If We're Not Back in Love by Monday; From Graceland to the Promised Land - (featuring The Jordanaires); It's Been a Great Afternoon; Rainbow Stew; I'm Always on a Mountain When I Fall; Ramblin' Fever...
Artists:
Merle Haggard

The 2012 release Icon rounds up 11 songs Merle Haggard recorded for MCA in the late '70s and early '80s -- a period that sometimes gets overlooked between his seminal early stint at Capitol and his la...continue...

Tracks: Okie from Muskogee; Mama Tried; Workin' Man Blues; If We Make It Through December; Carolyn; Fightin' Side of Me, The; It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad); I'm a Lonesome Fugitive; Soldier's Last Letter;...
Artists:
Merle Haggard

Capitol's budget-line 2012 compilation 10 Great Songs does indeed contain ten great songs Merle Haggard recorded for Capitol Records in the '60s and '70s. Highlights here include the immortal "Okie fr...continue...

Tracks: I Fall For It Every Time; Trouble Knows; She Don't Have a Clue; Try Me; Coming For You; Working Until I Die; Sweet Little Girl; Along For the Ride; Little Less Fun; Everyone Loves Me When I Am Drunk;...
Artists:
Grant Langston

This three-disc set collects 45 number one country hits, chronologically arranged from 1952 through 1979, and nearly every one of them is an iconic genre classic, including Porter Wagoner's "Satisfied...continue...

Tracks: King of the Road; Crystal Chandelier; Girl on the Billboard - Del Reeves; Green, Green Grass of Home; I Wouldn't Buy a Used Car from Him; I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water; Ribbon of Darkness; Make th...
Artists:
Various Artists